Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we made a lot of mental errors. It's hard to say right now if the strike affected things. A few small things happened to us, but they might have happened anyway...
...Brennan's anyway. Chelonian racing has been popular in California for over a decade, but at Brennan's it has become a cult. Each Thursday evening up to 700 aficionados toting map turtles, pacific pond turtles, diamondbacks and other favored varieties converge on the bar in search of a spot on its 13-race card and the chance to cart home a plywood trophy. There are time sheets and a record book, and the turtle with the evening's fastest time has its name engraved on a plaque that sits behind the bar. The track record...
...program was aired, the N.R.A. infiltrated an affiliates' screening and jotted down the names of the advertisers present. By air time, all but one of the scheduled companies had withdrawn their commercials. The standout was Block Drug (two 30-second spots). CBS went ahead with the program anyway, filling the station breaks with promotions...
...embarrass the mayor, his opponent in an upcoming election, the Governor dangles a sinecure before the city fire fighters' union president. The asking price: a smoke eaters' strike. Although his men vote to stay on the job without a contract, their leader calls a work stoppage anyway. A holocaust follows...
...This, anyway, is Nye Richardson Gifford, 63, chief of the Lymington Police and a certain mixture of Philip Marlowe and Christ who has had to wait to shoulder his greatest human burden and solve his biggest crime until now, the beginning of this novel. Until a sunny August afternoon in 1972 and the discovery, on a back road in Lymington, of the body of a youngish woman, her identity blasted past police identification by four .38 caliber slugs to the face...